Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

It's not just you. Survey says: "Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky" [...]

Thinking Machines' first official product is here: meet Tinker, an API for distributed LLM fine-tuning

Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded earlier this year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has launched its first product: Tinker, a Python-based API designed to make large language model (LLM) fin [...]

The Morning After: NASA’s Artemis II is on a voyage around the Moon

NASA’s Artemis II successfully launched on April 1, with its crew on a 10-day mission to circle the Moon. It’s the first crewed Artemis flight and a major step toward humanity returning to our lit [...]

NASA's Perseverance rover finds potential signs of ancient life on Mars

NASA just announced that its Perseverance rover recently found some promising signs of ancient life on Mars. The rover obtained a sample of rock formed billions of years ago from sediment and there ar [...]

The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program

The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so large they're impossible to write out using standard mathematical notation [...]

Fired CDC Director Says RFK Jr. Pressured Her to Blindly Approve Vaccine Changes

Susan Monarez told a Senate committee that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. demanded she dismiss career officials without cause—and accept vaccine recommendations regardless of whether science backed them up. [...]

RFK Jr’s anti-vaccine delusions—not science—steer CDC now, ex-director testifies

Ex-CDC director warns senators about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda. [...]

Some dogs can classify their toys by function

Come for the science. Stay for the adorable pics of happy pupsters with their favorite toys. [...]

Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers

LLM "tended to sacrifice accuracy for simplicity" when writing news briefs. [...]